Usually when I come up with a comic I just figure out the character designs as I go, but for Lewi I decided I wanted to actually do some design work up front. In this case I started out by doing some thumbnails of the first few strips, which also gave me an idea of what the story might be like.

And now you see why I computer-letter everything. (I can hand-letter if I need to, but at my best it still looks pretty bad.)